Minicraft 1/144

This is a very simple kit, and I've already done quite a bit of assembly work. Here's the fuselage, with the insides painted black, the nose wheel bay minicraft 1/144, and nose weights fixed in place with Blu-Tack:. That's a total of 6 kit parts!

I only took one photo of the finished model for some reason, but I've added a couple of extra shots I took before I realised that I'd forgotten to paint the nose cone! Being a predominantly white aircraft, the blue background probably suits it better anyway. It's just a shame I was too lazy to take more photos once the nose cone was done! Decals are a combination of Hawkeye Models Australia livery , Authentic Airliners Decals windows , and kit decals wing panels and walkway lines. The worst aspect of this kit, far and away, are the propellers. They're just misshapen lumps, and the prop blades break off just by thinking about them. Looks good Kev.

Minicraft 1/144

It is really hard to add to all the usual stuff I have said over the past year about this aircraft. I have always found it interesting that when one manufacturer brings out a kit that modelers have wanted for many years, all of a sudden we are 'inundated' by other kits of the same thing. One has to wonder what the marketing guys used for a barometer to see what we modelers would buy. Now as nice as all of these kits are, I can't see most of us building more than one of each. There is no difference at all in the parts of this kit and the previously issued KCG kit. In fact, there are parts missing off the sprues and those have been x'd out on the image above I used the image from the KCG kit rather than rescan the sprues. As nice as the Minicraft effort is, the kit is not really that highly detailed and suffers from toy-like wheels that have no detail in them at all and are too skinny. It also has zero engine detail in the nacelles and the props are close, but no cigar. Fortunately, there are replacements for the props and engines available in Cobra Company's set What can be done about the wheels I do not know. As for other detail, there isn't much. There is no wheel well detail and they are not even boxed in.

It's just a shame I was too lazy to take more photos once the nose cone was done! Great progress, minicraft 1/144, and a heads-up for me. Sign in Already have an account?

The review is here. Then I discovered that the kit was a rebox of the earlier Minicraft B, and in fact that kit was made from the Crown molds. So the model itself is over 30 years old. It would be unfair to judge this kit on just the plastic, so I built two models, one using the kit decals, one using "home made" decals. The Minicraft Kit Since both models are identical, the construction was almost simultaneous. The Crown kit came out well over 30 years ago, and has not aged well. Minicraft is not responsible for the errors and omissions in shape, detail and fit.

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Minicraft 1/144

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Still, it gave me a starting point. This is a very simple kit, and I've already done quite a bit of assembly work. Review kit courtesy of me and my credit card, detail set courtesy of Cobra Company. I'll have to get it out at some point when I need another break from tiny wires and hoses. The next step was to glue in the 'cockpit'. This makes handling the aircraft during painting, decals and assembly an opportunity to push one of the blisters into the fuselage or break off a gun. I removed the attachment point and butt glued it in place, otherwise it would not have fit. Also, the decal quality is just head and shoulders above the earlier kits. Posted February 9, Now the ones that come with the kit are totally devoid of any engine detail. Instead, I'd paint the kit windows grey, which is what I should have done in the first place. I went to the local art supply store, and bought an ultra-fine silver paint pen. B models had the turrets removed, but the side and top blisters for the gun aimers were kept, with observers. When dry, they were masked.

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The photo was of sufficient quality to allow me to clean it up and produce a decal. And here I lucked out again. Finishing the BA I now put the landing gear, as well as the doors. Following this, I glued the upper and lower wing halves together and glued the small stubs in the bottom of each of the four gun turrets. I put about an ounce of birdshot in behind the cockpit, through the nose wheel opening, and glued them in with Gator Glue. Those fit well to the main gear using super glue. I eventually just bit the bullet and finished it! Register a new account. However, perseverance can eventually give you a kit that will look nice on the shelf. Before gluing the wings, I test fitted the props to the engines.